Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of police, direct from Mr. Willard on a mysterious mission. Mr. Willard, it was gathered, had seen President Hoover. The B. & 0. would provide trains to move the B. E. F. westward. Somehow the Federal Government would foot the bill. But no B. & O. train would be run east; in that direction on its line lay Washington. One noon a citizens committee called on Mayor McCloskey, told him of the B. & O.'s offer, induced him to use his hard-boiled political oratory to get the B. E. F. to entrain. He could, he was assured, take...
...Denver's flat plain a little sand hill stands up, slopes away to the east. On the edge of the sand hill is a park called the Civic Centre. Long have its buildings been symbols of Denver pride, the weathered State Capitol looking down on a U. S. Mint, a Public Library, an open air Greek Theatre. Last week Denver pride looked to a new and climactic building in the Civic Centre. Facing the Capitol was a fine new white granite City & County Building. It had been abuilding for three years and now its bronze doors (world's largest) were...
...eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another. Saloons were paramount from the first, each with a "fighting ring" to accommodate customers. Rare was a day without a shooting and a spot on the east bank of Cherry Creek became the traditional duelling ground. But new Denverites kept arriving by wagon train and it was a long way back. The nearest rail head was 500 miles away at St. Joseph, Mo. It was unhealthful to ask a man what his name was back East...
...town is the business, hotel and amusement centre of modern Denver. South and east of the Civic Centre spreads the large, calm residential section, its wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver...
Denver is a synthetic city. It is off the transcontinental railroad line. The $18,000,000 Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide may eventually bring coast-to-coast traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown...